Matteo Renzi Quotes

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.